SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. It should be a fun evening with lots of interesting conversation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory. In this article, you’ll learn how other growing companies use the north star metric to achieve customer success. Customer-centricity. Accountability.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

The remainder of the email should include other highlights, core business metrics, financial metrics, challenges, goals, asks & thanks. We designed our board deck template as a framework which you can directly copy & modify for your own startup. Again, we’ve put together the full template here for founders to utilize.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Such sophisticated systems offer a range of functionalities, including seamless integration with existing HR frameworks, mobile capabilities for on-the-go feedback, and advanced analytics that present qualitative and quantitative insights. This clarity helps prevent misunderstandings and ensures alignment across the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

, work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Soon, your digital analytics strategic framework that you hoped would provide a true north to the analytics strategy question looks like this …. The Impact Matrix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. That means you have to start with assessing the current state against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or change. Make sure metric results are available to the team, to keep them motivated.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? What technology research is required? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. the company are organized and incentivized (as in what metrics determine their bonus). Make sure your executive dashboards obsess about acquisition, behavior and outcome metrics. So fix that.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Provide the metrics you are trying to achieve. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Developers like to do things their way even when it doesn’t meet the needs of the business.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. A common framework for defining your growth model is Dave McClure’s Pirate Metrics for startups : the AARRR framework. The framework helps you evaluate how you can affect growth at each stage of the customer journey.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. Here's a pictorial representation… Now that you have a framework (you're welcome!) Consider the YouTube marketing framework to be a inter-connected yet adaptable cluster of strategies. The YouTube Measurement Framework. YouTube is magnificent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The governance board and CEO should develop a strong AI framework that outlines the AI strategy and includes guidelines for usage. The framework can help minimize risk and prevent harm or other unforeseen consequences to the organization. This should include strategy as well as the policies.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

It should include primary and secondary KPIs and metrics related to marketing goals , as well as the platforms (e.g., When teams know what to track and how metrics relate to the overall objective, they can transform data into actionable insights to improve the play. Use the SMART framework to set realistic goals. Measurement.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. Ric Dragon’s seminal publication “ Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever ” is different.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). Distribution framework. The strategic level.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

In 2010, Alex Osterwalder published his book, Business Model Generation , where he created a framework for what Tim called “business identity.” Beyond tracking key financial metrics such as cash, sales, expenses, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, businesses must track the other key metrics that are critical to their success.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Organizations often obsess over NPS, but it’s a metric that sits at the top of the pyramid. ICE is a simple prioritization framework. The ICE framework prioritizes tests based on Impact, Confidence, and Ease (of implementation): Another popular prioritization framework is PIE. The PXL framework is a variation of ICE.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. KISS Metrics – How to Run A/B Tests that Get REAL Results. Dave McClure’s presentation on startup metrics start here: A framework for thinking about stats.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

If not, remember these are professionals that you’re paying, so put a framework in place that enables them to work together and maximizes the value of their efforts. Create a fair tracking and attribution framework. Growth killer #2: Different goals and metrics. Once you’ve identified the metric, never lose sign of it.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Another trend born in the omnichannel framework is the customer data platform (CDM). Yet, corporations have to set a framework for testing , which has to be short-term, preferably up to three months. No need to worry about missing out on one or another trend — try them all.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

The best businesses are data-driven and metrics-driven. Instead of simply tracking top-line metrics, every person in the organization understands their role, how they impact the business metrics, and how this impacts its larger goals.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Let’s look at each stage of the framework and how to use it to drive and measure growth.

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

KPIs are metrics (numbers). “A A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric that helps you understand how you are doing against your objectives.” – Avinash Kaushik. A metric becomes a KPI only when it is measuring something connected to your objectives. 4) Define your target metrics. Is that good?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

They should freely share learnings and don’t compete with each other, meaning they effectively act like small, independent start-ups within a larger framework. Engineers are not forced to share or reuse code, so there is no central framework that everyone must use. All KPIs and metrics are available to everyone in the company.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. It forms several components of our ResearchXL framework : Analyzing web analytics data to understand how users currently move through a site.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. While at Compete I can also dig into a whole bunch of metrics like Visits, PageViews, udience segmentation, and so much more. Here I particularly like to look at a metric I call "share of search."

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. To do this, we recommend the ResearchXL Framework. It also helps to have a framework. There are many frameworks to prioritize your A/B tests, and you could even innovate with your own formula. We’ll measure this using (data metric). Define your website goals. Craig Sullivan.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Enter your URL on this free tool, and you’ll see an overall score and some useful metrics. Here are the metrics Google Page Insights measures that specifically relate to SRT.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Keep in mind that some of the development tools like WordPress themes and Magento framework aren’t free. It may take more time and money but provide your website with uniqueness, better scalability, more attractive design etc. What about other factors that have an impact on your budget?

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